Word: willcocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peppery Yorkshireman Clarence Henry Willcock, 55, had no intention of making himself a cause célébre. He was simply fed up. When a burly constable armed with all the majesty of entrenched bureaucracy stopped him for speeding in a London suburb last year, Harry's reflexes crystallized. "All right, now," Police Constable Muckle told Harry, when he pulled to a stop, "let's see your identity card." Since the first days of World War II, all Britons have been required to carry identity cards and produce them on demand, but Harry...
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